Mexborough & Swinton Times – Saturday 19 January 1924
Marconigrams
A case of small-pox has been discovered at Goldthorpe and sent to Hoober Hospital.
The miners have voted five to one in favour of terminating the wages agreement.
The Mexborough Labour Party suggest forming a Vigilance Committee to overlook municipal affairs.
During the recent small-pox scare at Edlington, over 800 persons were vaccinated and so the plague was stayed.
The Wesleyans in the Wath Circuit contemplate the erection of a new Wesleyan Mission Hall at Thurnscoe.
The Thurnscoe Council Chamber, which for years has been as peaceful as a Meeting House, picked up some jarring atmospherics this week.
The Mexborough Amateur Dramatic Society are proposing to give any profits from their forthcoming production “The School for Scandal” to the Montagu Hospital.
The Yorkshire Coal and Coke Trade Wagon Representatives’ Association, which held its 22nd annual dinner at Doncaster last Saturday, was founded at Mexborough.
The Don Valley Labour Party are going to celebrate the victory of Mr. Tom Williams, M.P., at the recent election, at a special gathering on Saturday evening.
The current issue of the “Ypres Times,” published by the Ypres League, reproduces an extract from a “Mexborough and Swinton Times” leading article on Sapper Hackett, V.C.
According to a statement at a recent Wagon Trade dinner at Doncaster, the Manvers Main Collieries shipped over 100,000 tons of coal more through the Humber ports last year than in 1922.
The District Conference on Mining Subsidence to which the Wath Urban Council has invited the local authorities of the district, is to be held in the Town Hall, Wath, on February 13.
People in the neighbourhood of Wombwell Wood have been a good deal scared of late by a “ghost” which keeps popping out and announcing itself as the “Monarch of the Wood.” There is a theory that it has broken loose from a pantomime.
The holders of John Baker and Co. (Rotherham) Cumulative Preference shares are notified that dividends for two half years ended June last are to be paid. In July last, the dividend was paid up to June 30, 1922.
Fearing the effect of the competition with the Dearne and District Tramway, which will be opened in a few months, the Thurnscoe Council have refused the application of the Barnsley Traction Company to licence a further 18 ’buses.
The directors of the Midland Bank, Ltd., report that the net profits for the year ended 31st Dec., 1923, amounted to £2,210,972 6s. 3d., to which is added the balance of £768,987 4s. 6d. brought forward from last account, making a total sum available of £2,999,959 10s. 9d. A final dividend at the rate of 18 per cent. per annum, less income tax, is to be paid to the shareholders on the first day of February.
Here it is!—Edward Smith and Sons Great Salvage and Winter Sale commences to-day (Friday). Desperate reductions. Bargains for everyone.—Edward Smith and Sons, West Melton.
Fred Hadwen’s Sale
Splendid cloths at reduced prices. Black vicuna suits, 50s. to 100s.; black and indigo serge suits from 70s. to 105s.; tweed suits 45s. upwards; and all good wearers. Sound and reliable, and fit guaranteed.—Fred Hadwen, Practical Tailor, 32 High Street, Mexborough, Barnsley and Wombwell.